Re: [rtcweb] JSEP: Relaxing SDP O/A rules?

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 05 October 2012 17:14 UTC

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On 5 October 2012 00:39, Christer Holmberg
<christer.holmberg@ericsson.com> wrote:
>>> If you want to support parallel forking, you need to be able to simultanously perform ICE etc with all remote peers.
>>
>> Right.  You can almost get that by pretending that it's just one
>> remote peer with lots of candidates.  You can at least get to the
>> consent point by doing that.  But you aren't going to nominate more
>> than one pair.  Similarly, this will only generate a single DTLS
>> session.
>
> I was thinking about the same once, but I think I found some issues (unfortunately they don't come to my mind at the moment).

It's probably not going to be flawless, true.  As you say, media would
be a little crazy.  You might be able to get one media stream out of
it - not multiple.

> Can I use the same local descriptor for every setLocal() call?

My experience suggests that you can.  However, that's not stipulated
in the API specification, so it's not an ironclad guarantee.

> Can you then at least tell me when I'll be able to buy the Microsoft Surface? :)

Yes.  When they release it.  October 25 apparently.